A Bug's Life

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A Bug's Life

G

1998

1h 36m

Kids & Family

Comedy

Adventure

Animation

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Flik is an inventive ant who's always messing things up for his colony. His latest mishap was destroying the food stores that were supposed to be used to pay off grasshopper Hopper. Now the strong-arming insect is demanding that the ants gather double the food or face annihilation. To avert disaster, Flik goes on a journey to recruit fighters to defend the colony. When he meets a band of high-flying circus insects, he thinks he's found his salvation.

Critics Consensus

A Bug's Life is a rousing adventure that blends animated thrills with witty dialogue and memorable characters - and another smashing early success for Pixar.

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Rebecca Long

Observer

12/01/2021

A-

Critics who write off A Bug's Life focus on the surface-level plot about Flik's individual perseverance ... But under this palatable veneer is a story about workers' rights.

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

09/07/2011

B

A Bug's Life may be the single most amazing film I've ever seen that I couldn't fall in love with.

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Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

06/25/2011

This animated fable teems with vivid creatures standing on their own countless feet.

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Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

10/04/2023

3.5/4

Disney has triumphed yet again and “A Bug’s Life” is easily their best computer-generated effort yet. “A Bug’s Life” is a film for the entire family. Both adults and children alike will be thrilled and delighted.

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Jae-Ha Kim

Jae-Ha Kim

07/27/2023

3/4

Following on the multi-legged heels of Dreamworks' often dark and somber computer animation debut "Antz," "A Bug's Life" is Disney's colorful follow-up to its mega-blockbuster "Toy Story."

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Michael Baumann

The Ringer

06/17/2022

It may not have had the commercial success of Finding Nemo, or the franchise potential of Toy Story,' but A Bug's Life still deserves respect for its story and the place it occupies in Pixar history

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Rocco S

@Rocstar Apr 25

Now when I Watch a new Pixar movie that’s not Toy Story but it’s different and now I think everyone talks about a bugs life and watching this movie was tiny bit off don’t let me get it wrong a bugs life isn’t bad it’s just kinda mediocre the story is very generic the characters like flick and so on are all forgettable and this movie is a little bit boring in some scenes I was stuck on the halfway point the only thing I gave it nicely is the animation is the same step up from Toy Story 1 and the villain is pretty good but besides those 2 parts this movie is very mediocre in my opinion 2.5/5

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Matteo Q

@Matteo59 Apr 25

Non è il miglior film pixar ma è comunque molto bello e gli insetti sono affascinanti

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Carrot 6

@Elfin628 Apr 13

Don't understand these reviews calling the film too scary and saying it is bad

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Henry S

@Henry6767 Apr 10

The movie is pretty predictable, but it"s still pretty good. Especially the animation for it’s time.

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Gabriella S

@RT99554336 Mar 29

Very enjoyable movie, but ever since I was a little kid, the inaccuracies made it painful to watch. The only ants of significance in a colony are female. Males try desperately to mate and then die. Flick should be female. And Princess Atta would be her biological sister. There is no such thing as a male worker ant. The males are uncommon, short-lived, and winged. All workers and soldiers are female. I don’t see why the inventor protagonist couldn’t be a more realistic female ant. And why is it that the "good bugs" have four limbs and the "bad bugs" have six limbs? Of course there are exceptions, but that’s the general rule. No insect has four limbs, it’s upsetting to see. And making the "bad guy" grasshoppers have six limbs only serves to villainize true bugs. Also, the principle of grasshoppers demanding food of ants is simply unrealistic. If anything, ants are the ones who hunt grasshoppers. It could have been a different type of bug. These are my grievances as an entomologist.

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Davetheman

Mar 26

Flink freaking rocks

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Synopsis

Flik is an inventive ant who's always messing things up for his colony. His latest mishap was destroying the food stores that were supposed to be used to pay off grasshopper Hopper. Now the strong-arming insect is demanding that the ants gather double the food or face annihilation. To avert disaster, Flik goes on a journey to recruit fighters to defend the colony. When he meets a band of high-flying circus insects, he thinks he's found his salvation.

Director: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton
Producer: Darla K. Anderson, Kevin Reher
Screenwriter: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft, Don McEnery, Bob Shaw, Geefwee Boedoe, Jason Katz, Jørgen Klubien, Robert Lence, David Reynolds
Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista International [us]
Production Co: Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures
Rating: G
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 14, 1998, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $162.8M
Runtime: 1h 36m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround